“November 17, 1964
“Columbia’s latest hike means that the school’s tuition has gone up nearly 73 per cent since 1959. Tuition was $1450 in 1960-61 and $1575 in 1962-63; it is $1700 this year.
“The tuition in Columbia’s graduate schools will also go up next fall. In the school of journalism, the jump is from $1650 to $1850; in the school of medicine, it is from $1700 to $1900; and in the school of law, from $1500 to $1700.”
“Current tuition rates at the other Ivy League colleges are: Brown, $1600; Cornell $1700; Pennsylvania, $1750; Princeton, $1770; and Yale and Dartmouth, $1800.”
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1964/11/17/columbia-ups-tuition-rate-another-200/
“Ancient College Tuitions”
Back in the 70’s tuition for my Chem E degree at NJIT was, if I remember correctly, all of about $350 for the semester. My son graduated from RPI at, again if I remember correctly, about $50k per year, for his Electrical and Bio Engineering degrees, and that was 15 years ago! ,
One thing about all this DEI stuff, and true for both me and my son, we were both lucky that our respective engineering schools focused only on engineering.
My son, after graduating from FL State law scool, went on for a Computer science masters at Columbia, and was amazed at what was going on there, with respect to DEI. In a nut shell, he commented that the students, professors, and curriculum in the liberal arts section of Columbia lacked the seriousness that he experienced in law or his engineering school.